Trump delivers incoherent speech praising Capitol rioters after judge denies $355m fraud delay: Live

Fox News broadcast some further unseen clips from Tuesday night’s South Carolina town hall with Trump last night.

Really getting their money’s worth out of this, aren’t they?

Among the dregs were Trump’s thoughts on Bitcoin, oil prices and what’s at stake in November’s election as a toadying Tim Scott sat in to play Robin to his Batman.

Sleepy Don looked absolutely shattered last night as he took to the stage an hour and a half late in Nashville, Tennessee, to address the National Religious Broadcasters association and boy was he on one.

Tripping over words you might hope he had down for this audience like “evangelical”, he declared, among other things, that he had made “Israel” the capital of Israel during his presidency (presumably confusing the decision to move the US embassy in that country from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem), that he planned to close down the Department of Education (!) and praised the Capitol rioters, or “J6 hostages”, for their “tremendous spirit”.

He even claimed that “everybody” agreed with the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs Wade, which, I don’t know, I’m sure can’t be right… Everybody? Really? No one had a problem? You’d think someone would have mentioned it…

It really was an astonishing performance, some of which amounted to outright gibberish.

The names you’d expect… and one surprise…

Mike Bedigan ponders the whereabouts of the former first lady:

Lydic attacked Mr Trump for “making it about himself” after the one-term president posted an essay on Truth Social titled ‘Biden:Trump::Putin:Navalny.”

The post included a line which read, “Alexei Navalny’s untimely death shines a light on the Left’s lawfare on Trump.”

However, Lydic thought that to compare Navalny with Trump was “unacceptable.”

Amelia Neath has the story:

He faces a 40-count indictment in a federal court, charged with the illegal possession of classified documents at his Florida estate post-2021 and impeding efforts by the US government to reclaim them.

US special counsel Jack Smith’s team charged Mr Trump with storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which contained sensitive details about the US nuclear programme and potential national security weaknesses.

Read the full story here:

Gustaf Kilander has the details:

Despite refusing to show up for any of the Republican primary debates – or for the presidential debates in 2020 – Donald Trump is now challenging PresidentJoe Biden to debate him this time around.

Speaking at a town hall on Fox News Tuesday night, the former president and Republican frontrunner said there was “an obligation” for the pair to go head-to-head in the lead-up to the election in November.

“Frankly, I think we have an obligation. When you have the final Republican, the final Democrat, you have the two people, you have to debate regardless of polls,” Mr Trump told Laura Ingraham in South Carolina.

Mr Trump said he would like to have as many debates as necessary, adding: “I would like to do it starting now”.

Andrew Feinberg reports that it has become increasingly apparent that the sources of whatever ‘dirt’ Republicans claim to have on President Joe Biden and his family can all be traced back to one man…

President Joe Biden’s reported plan to restrict the right to claim asylum at the US-Mexico border has alarmed members of Congress and civil and humanitarian rights groups who fear the administration could be in breach of international law.

Such a proposal, which would bypass Congress, would mirror an illegal Trump-era measure that a federal judge had previously rejected as an unlawful attempt to “rewrite” the nation’s immigration laws to “impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden.”